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September 29, 2005: Roanoake College Celebrates Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
" am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I give you joy of your free & brave thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote those words in a letter to Whitman barely two weeks after the book was published in July 1855. He appeared, by most accounts, to be the only one who liked the book."
